Final Cut Express Solutions

Apple's Final Cut Express offers all the capabilities you need to produce first-rate digital videos. Inside this full-color guide, acclaimed authors Jason Cranford Teague and David Teague show you how to put these features to work and edit your digital videos like a pro. Final Cut Express Solutions focuses on the tasks that film editors face daily. Designed for budding filmmakers and DV veterans, it's filled with practical lessons and insights on how to craft polished productions while balancing time and money constraints. Get tips on everything from how to shoot your video footage for optimal results, to outputting your finished video to DVD and the Web. You can even follow along with the authors' clips provided on the DVD, or use your own footage. Centered upon a sample video documentary project, this book thoroughly leads you through each step of the way, including: Organizing your project using the Timeline Editing with multiple tracks Trimming clips: ripple, roll, slip, and slide edits Creating transitions and overlays Adding effects, applying filters, and working with text Jazzing it up with audio transitions Delivering your finished product to the Web, videotape, or DVD Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. Apple's Final Cut Express offers all the capabilities you need to produce first-rate digital videos. Inside this full-color guide, acclaimed authors Jason Cranford Teague and David Teague show you how to put these features to work and edit your digital videos like a pro.

Final Cut Express Solutions focuses on the tasks that film editors face daily. Designed for budding filmmakers and DV veterans, it's filled with practical lessons and insights on how to craft polished productions while balancing time and money constraints. Get tips on everything from how to shoot your video footage for optimal results, to outputting your finished video to DVD and the Web. You can even follow along with the authors’ clips provided on the DVD, or use your own footage.

Centered upon a sample video documentary project, this book thoroughly leads you through each step of the way, including:
Organizing your project using the Timeline
Editing with multiple tracks
Trimming clips: ripple, roll, slip, and slide edits
Creating transitions and overlays
Adding effects, applying filters, and working with text
Jazzing it up with audio transitions
Delivering your finished product to the Web, videotape, or DVD

On the DVD
The DVD contains individual project files along with the complete video featured in the book, to help you work through the tutorials and complete your own solutions.

About the Author
Jason Cranford Teague is a web designer, multimedia expert, and computer design book author. For more than ten years, Jason has created innovative web designs for clients including Coca-Cola, CNN, and WebMD. David Teague is an award winning filmmaker, writer, film curator, and teacher. The Teagues are the authors of Sybex’s best-selling Final Cut Pro 3 and the Art of Filmmaking.

Annotation ComponentsDVD: The authors have created a professional video specifically for this book, which readers will use as their primary tool for tutorials designed to obtain the desired solutions they want from Final Cut Express. The DVD will also contain necessary files to complete exercises in the book